The Miniature Lop is the smallest of the lop breeds in Britain.
Mini Lops have a compact, muscular, and round body. The eyes are bright and large. The dense, glossy coat is neither too short nor too long. Mini Lops come in a great variety of colours including chinchilla, chestnut agouti, lynx, opal, black, white, ruby-eyed white, blue-eyed white, blue, chocolate, lilac, orange, black, tri-colour. Weekly grooming is necessary, with extra care given in shedding periods.
When fully grown they weigh around 3.5 pounds.
Temperament
Like any other animal, Miniature Lops come in a variety of personalities, but they are generally known to be a very sweet, docile, calm, friendly and very playful. They enjoy being with their family and thrive on attention.
They are also inimitably clownish. Very intelligent, they can be trained a variety of tricks and commands, including toilet-training. However, unspayed females may get territorial of their cage space and un-neutered males may spray, hump other animals or toys or play a mating ritual around your feet when you enter the room.
Mini lops are an ideal pet for any age of child but please remember that a neglected Mini Lop may develop unwanted behaviour such as biting.
Housing
All of our rabbits are born in the garage which is only heated during extreme cold conditions. Our rabbits are used to cold temperatures from birth and can quite happily live outside. If you want your bunny to live in the house, it is important to keep them cool whilst they adjust to the change in temperature. Taking an outdoor bunny to live inside during winter months can prove fatal if common sense is not used. Rabbits do not cope with heat as well as they do with the cold and become dehydrated very quickly. Please ask for advice upon visiting.
With regard to your bunnies house, the bigger the better. They will need a house where they can stretch out comfortably and have room to bunny hop in their cage. Bunnies need lots of exercise to keep them happy and it is important that they have access to either a bunny proof garden where they can free roam or a large, secure exercising run. Bunnies can jump extremely high, so if exercised in a run, this will need to have a lid or net across the top.
Mini Lops have a compact, muscular, and round body. The eyes are bright and large. The dense, glossy coat is neither too short nor too long. Mini Lops come in a great variety of colours including chinchilla, chestnut agouti, lynx, opal, black, white, ruby-eyed white, blue-eyed white, blue, chocolate, lilac, orange, black, tri-colour. Weekly grooming is necessary, with extra care given in shedding periods.
When fully grown they weigh around 3.5 pounds.
Temperament
Like any other animal, Miniature Lops come in a variety of personalities, but they are generally known to be a very sweet, docile, calm, friendly and very playful. They enjoy being with their family and thrive on attention.
They are also inimitably clownish. Very intelligent, they can be trained a variety of tricks and commands, including toilet-training. However, unspayed females may get territorial of their cage space and un-neutered males may spray, hump other animals or toys or play a mating ritual around your feet when you enter the room.
Mini lops are an ideal pet for any age of child but please remember that a neglected Mini Lop may develop unwanted behaviour such as biting.
Housing
All of our rabbits are born in the garage which is only heated during extreme cold conditions. Our rabbits are used to cold temperatures from birth and can quite happily live outside. If you want your bunny to live in the house, it is important to keep them cool whilst they adjust to the change in temperature. Taking an outdoor bunny to live inside during winter months can prove fatal if common sense is not used. Rabbits do not cope with heat as well as they do with the cold and become dehydrated very quickly. Please ask for advice upon visiting.
With regard to your bunnies house, the bigger the better. They will need a house where they can stretch out comfortably and have room to bunny hop in their cage. Bunnies need lots of exercise to keep them happy and it is important that they have access to either a bunny proof garden where they can free roam or a large, secure exercising run. Bunnies can jump extremely high, so if exercised in a run, this will need to have a lid or net across the top.